I have to be honest with you: This isn't really archaic art. It's just some random stuff I started to draw one day, in the middle of a boring class. It's only that. And then again it's more than that. At first I started doing quick sketches of my teacher or the guys sitting next to me. And after doing this for almost a year I got better at it. I improved. They say practice will often cause that... a certain improvement. If that's the case, I'll continue holding pens and nibs.

April 8, 2011

Are British writers superior (at least in the comic book industry)? I’m a big fan of late 70’s and early 80’s 2000 AD stuff, and Moore, Morrison, Wagner, Grant, Milligan and the rest of the gang were just brilliant back then. Diet, geography, tradition, history, sociological development, there could be thousands of possible explanations, but British writers seem to be consistently better than American writers. Sometimes you don’t even know they’re British. That happened to me with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. I remember picking up The Legion # 22, and after a few months I had the entire run, and I kept buying the new issues until the end. I first met the Legion of Super-Heroes through Levitz’s old 80s run, and I loved the idea of the Legion so much that I felt sad after I lost track on it. But I don’t let nostalgia cloud my judgment. Those issues represent good memories, sure. Nevertheless, there is a vast distance separating nostalgia from memories. Memories are good or bad, and that’s it. They hurt us or please us, nothing else. And I believe that we always try to cope with our best memories –a most difficult task–. To remember is something that always depends on our will. Something that is much more linked to the will –will disguised as evocation– that we might consider at first. Once again: memories are good or bad, regular if you wish. The writer can make of them whatever he wants when he creates his masterpiece. Nostalgia, on the contrary, contains the wondrous ability of being totally independent from our will. It is easy, very easy, it is simply a matter of efficient or inefficient memory to remember. It is impossible in contrast to ‘nostalgiate’. Because of the simple reason that there is nothing more independent from our memory than our own nostalgia.

6 comments:

I feel you on the british writers, man. Hine's my favorite and Peter Milligan has quickly rose up as one of my top favorites also. There's just something about their styles. They have their own but there's still something so distinct that pulls you in and knocks you out to take notice. There are various American writers that do the same, but there's something particular about British writers that my finger can't quite touch on.

I agree about the awesomeness of the British writers. I think Marvel (and probably DC as well) actively sought Brit writers back in the 70's & 80's. "Marvel UK" had some awesome writers/artists and I think their work on that imprint really paved the way for the Brits to crossover to Marvel's mainstream titles.

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Comic books are my passion. They are as precious to me as the oxygen I breathe, and perhaps even more. The 9th art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. And through the years, this passion kept on increasing, thus turning me into an active participant. I started as a reader and later on I became a full-fledged writer and artist. Indeed I’ve found the perfect way to have twice as much pleasure when it comes to comics: I can either read them or write and draw them. And I absolutely love doing both!